Sunday, 8 October 2017

Gelish - Little Miss Nutcracker Collection, Review + Swatches

After a busy weekend of doing absolutely nothing except painting nails and eating (what could be better?), it feels right to end it with a blog post. It's a super exciting week for me as I'm off to see Harry Potter and The Cursed Child next weekend, plus we're off to the Warner bros studios, I can't wait! I bought the tickets for the play more than a year ago, so it's been a long time coming.

Anyway, on to the nails! It's been so long since I last did a Gelish review, in fact it's been pretty much exactly a year, and boy have I missed reviewing their gorgeous gels. So when I got the new Little Miss Nutcracker* collection to review, I wanted to show you them as soon as I could. I'm well and truly in the festive spirit this year already, I know it's super early but I think because I had such a miserable time last Christmas it just feels all the more exciting this time around, and I already can't wait to decorate my house!

The collection features 6 gorgeous shades, plus a lovely glitter topper to complete the collection. They're all such wonderful Christmassy shades, but I think my favourite must be Plum-thing Magical*, because it really is (some)thing magical! This was also my first time trying to new Gelish bottles. When I first saw they'd changed I was a little sad, as I really loved the old design, but having seen them in person I really like them, and it's so much easier to see which colour you're picking out!

You Crack Me Up* is the most fantastic green glitter. I expected this to take a million coats to reach opacity, but it has a thicker consistency than I thought and it only needed 2/3 (depending on how fussy you are about patches). Shown with Gelish - Top It Off*.

As Baby It's Bold Outside* was such a striking colour, I decided it would be perfect to showcase Silver In My Stocking*, the glitter topper of the collection. I didn't expect to like this shade, as I don't normally like shard glitters, but this works really well and definitely reminds me of snow! I did need some placement of the glitter, but that's to be expected.

Plum-Thing Magical* is a truly stunning plum shimmer, and as I mentioned above it's my definite favourite from the collection. These photos don't do it justice, it shimmers in the light and ah I'm in love. I'm sure you'll be seeing this one again on my blog! This was 2 very easy coats with Gelish - Top It Off*.

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